[debbugs-tracker] bug#10763: closed (23.4; calc-embedded fails to simplify units in \frac)

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regarding 23.4; calc-embedded fails to simplify units in \frac
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> 23.4; calc-embedded fails to simplify units in \frac
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> Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:51:54 +0100
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> Using calc-embedded in LaTeX:
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> \documentclass[pdftex,a4paper]{report}
> $ a \gets 3 m $
> $ b \gets 4 m $
> $ \evalto \alpha \gets \arcsin\left( \frac{a}{b} \right) \to
> \arcsin\left( \frac{0.75 m}{m} \right) $
> \end{document}
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> calc doesn't finish evaluating the expression, presumably because it
> has failed to
> simplify the units in the fraction.
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> > Using calc-embedded in LaTeX:
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> > \documentclass[pdftex,a4paper]{report}
> > $ a \gets 3 m $
> > $ b \gets 4 m $
> > $ \evalto \alpha \gets \arcsin\left( \frac{a}{b} \right) \to
> > \arcsin\left( \frac{0.75 m}{m} \right) $
> > \end{document}
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> > calc doesn't finish evaluating the expression, presumably because it
> > has failed to simplify the units in the fraction.
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> By default, Calc doesn't cancel the common factors of the top and bottom
> of a fraction unless they are the leading factors.  If you want Calc
> to cancel any common factors, you can use algebraic simplification mode.
> You can turn that on with "m A".  
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> So for the above file, you can open it and type "C-x * a" (to activate
> all of the formulas), go to the evalto line and type "C-x * e" (to work
> on the embedded formula), and then "m A" to put Calc in algebraic
> simplification mode.  You will then get 
>   $\evalto \alpha \gets \arcsin\left( \frac{a}{b} \right) \to 48.5903778907$
> (if you are in degree mode and not in symbolic mode).
> You can type "m A" to get out of algebraic simplification mode or "m m"
> to save algebraic simplification mode (and any other modes you are
> using) for future sessions.
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> Jay
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